Pippa crerar and daily mail columnist sarah vine. Hello and welcome. At the 2019 election, borisjohnson captured a slew of northern constituencies in england with the promise to level up the country. The government said it would rebalance the economy, share the prosperity of london, to address long Standing Underinvestment in the regions. And now we have the policy, a Bill Published Today by the Levelling Up Secretary michael gove which, finally, spells out how they aim to achieve it. This white paper lays out a long Term Economic and plan to make opportunity more equal. It shifts power and opportunity towards the north end midlands, scotland, wales and Northern Ireland. It guarantees increase investment in overlooked and undervalued communities. In research and development, in education and skills, and transport and broadband, in urban parks and decent homes, and grassroots ports and local culture and in fighting crime and tackling anti social behavior. It gives local communities the
Pippa crerar and daily mail columnist sarah vine. Hello and welcome. At the 2019 election, borisjohnson captured a slew of northern constituencies in england with the promise to level up the country. The government said it would rebalance the economy, share the prosperity of london, to address long Standing Underinvestment in the regions. And now we have the policy, a Bill Published Today by the Levelling Up Secretary michael gove which, finally, spells out how they aim to achieve it. This white paper lays out a long Term Economic and plan to make opportunity more equal. It shifts power and opportunity towards the north end midlands, scotland, wales and Northern Ireland. It guarantees increase investment in overlooked and undervalued communities. In research and development, in education and skills, and transport and broadband, in urban parks and decent homes, and grassroots ports and local culture and in fighting crime and tackling anti social behavior. It gives local communities the
after 19 children are killed in a school shooting as the debate over gun control intensifies. the king of clay, rafael nadal, cruises through round three at the french open, while emma radacanu is now focusing on wimbledon as she reflects on her defeat, ending british interest in the women s singles. it s in the women s singles. a bit windy today across th uk, it s a bit windy today across the uk, especially illinois. some rain at times in the west but as we head towards that weekend things are looking drier. i will have the full forecast here on breakfast. it s thursday 26th may. our main story. every household in britain is set to receive hundreds of pounds in additional support from the government to ease the cost of living crisis this winter. the £200 loan on energy bills, announced in february, could now be doubled and replaced with a grant that will not have to be paid back with further measures expected for those on low and fixed incomes. the £10 billion package is
met police. things happened the wrong way around. what we got yesterday was more stories about what actually went on behind closed doors. you sort of got this image of borisjohnson, the prime minister, is an absent minded landlord of some very rowdy tenants and in terms of taking responsibility for what happened, as he said he is doing, that responsibility has involved movies and people on, some people are leaving, he says doubling down on why he wants to be prime minister in the first place, which i think to some of his critics will sound like not enough responsibility being taken. in terms of the politics, his position within the conservative party looks pretty secure at the moment. yesterday only one extra conservative mp came out publicly and called for him to go. so the sue gray report is done, the met police inquiry is done. really this investigation by a parliamentary committee into whether borisjohnson misled parliament in his denials about the parties. but i wonder if some per
donald trump admits he did want mike pence to overturn the result of the 2020 election and he calls on his supporters to come out in their thousands, if they dare to charge him for it. tonight with the context, ayesha hazarika, former labour advisor and evening standard columnist. and guto harri who worked with borisjohnson when he was the mayor of london. hello and welcome. 12 of the 16 events sue gray investigated are now subject to a police investigation, including three events it s claimed borisjohnson attended in person. in the abridged version of her report published today, sue gray said she was limited in what she could make public because of the met police inquiry. none of the 70 people she has